Medulloblastoma is comprised of at least four molecular subgroups with distinct clinical outcome (WHO classification 2016). SHH-TP53-mutated as well as MYC-amplified Non-WNT/Non-SHH medulloblastoma show the worst prognosis.Here we present evidence that single application of the multi-kinase inhibitor Vandetanib displays anti-neoplastic efficacy against cell lines derived from high-risk SHH-TP53...

A variety of tumor suppressor genes are down-regulated by hypermethylation during carcinogenesis. Using methylated CpG amplification-representation difference analysis, we identified a DNA fragment corresponding to the Tazarotene-induced gene 1 (TIG1) promoter-associated CpG island as one of the genes hypermethylated in the leukemia cell line K562. Because TIG1 has been proposed to act as a tum...

Gap junctional intercellular communication (GJIC) and the expression of gap junction proteins (connexins) are frequently decreased in neoplastic cells and have been increased by cAMP and retinoids. GJIC and connexin expression were investigated in early passage normal human ovarian surface epithelial (HOSE) cells, human ovarian adenocarcinoma cell lines (CaOV-3, NIH:OVCAR-3, SK-OV-3 and SW626) ...

A novel cell line, FL-18, was established from the pleural effusion of a patient with follicular small cleaved cell lymphoma. At the same time, an Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) nuclear antigen (EBNA)-positive cell line, FL-18-EB, was established from the EBV-infected culture of the same pleural effusion cells. Both cell lines had the same monoclonal surface immunoglobulin (IgG kappa), and they had t...

B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphomas (NHL-B) have been difficult to establish in long-term cell culture using standard techniques. We report the establishment of five representative cell lines from high grade NHL-B using B-cell growth factor (BCGF). The five NHL-B cell lines display the morphologic, immunophenotypic, genotypic, and biologic characteristics of the lymphoma cells present in the origina...

We have previously described (1) the in vitro isolation of chemically transformed cell lines resistant (C type) and sensitive (I type) to rejection mechanisms operative in normal mice. The experiments reported here utilize these two classes of transformed fibroblastic cell lines (I and C type) along with the parental nontransformed cell line (N type) to analyze the resistance or sensitivity of ...

Gastrointestinal neuroendocrine tumours (NET) represent a heterogeneous tumour entity. The anti-neoplastic therapy of advanced NET disease is still unsatisfactory and innovative therapeutic approaches are needed. As NET frequently express insulin-like growth factors (IGFs) and their receptors (IGFR), known to promote survival, oncogenic transformation, tumour growth and spreading, the inhibitio...

Serum-free medium conditioned for 72 h by a human bronchioloalveolar carcinoma of lung, A549-1, stimulated the colony formation of normal human bronchial epithelial cells, newly cultured cells from human solid lung tumors, and established human lung tumor cell lines, including A549-1 cells themselves. This activity was concentration dependent and was stable to acid. Growth factors in A549-1 con...

background: opticin, as a member of small leucine rich proteoglycans (slrps), mainly expressed in human eyes. it is also expressed in human brain, ligament, liver and skin, but at lower levels than the eyes. in the present study, expression of opticin was studied in a variety of human cancer cell lines. materials and methods: in this basic study, human cancer cell lines including, a-172 (brain ...